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  1. J

    What happens to Australia if transportation continues to British North America?

    Similar in NZ with the Otago Gold rush from 1861 onwards
  2. J

    2005: Osborne instead of Cameron

    There's also the risk that the Sour Grapes Email of 2023 was indicative of his behaviour then as well so if so maybe that might come out
  3. J

    Book Nook: The Flashman Series, by George MacDonald Fraser

    That might have been the Mali Rising work from Jonathan Edelstein. See here for one https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/mal%C3%AA-rising.226788/page-192#post-8534001
  4. J

    Insulting a Regiment

    I recall reading an autobiography of somone who got a dig in at the Royal Army Service Corps - RASC, which he said was an acronym for "rob all serving cobbers" after he had various things stolen from him whilst recovering from an injury in WW1
  5. J

    How valid is this costing of a Dover/Calais causeway - when built by the Romans?

    Hard to see how they could get very far off the coast before the effects of tidal action/current/wind/etc would cause more damage than could be managed. I'd see this causeway to be more like a breakwater than a bridge, a solid object. The longest in the UK apparently is 2.39km and it is by...
  6. J

    New Labour PR PODs

    Just a thought that came to me over the weekend for some minor PODs Specifically: 1. The London Assembly/Mayoral electoral systems. I recall @Lord Roem mentioning some annecdote or something from LSE about his lecturer saying they made up one of the systems en route to No 10 (or the...
  7. J

    The Third Crown and Other Weird Tales - short story/novella collection

    A kind offer but I'll buy a copy when I fix my Amazon account
  8. J

    Overdone tropes you actually enjoy?

    New Zealand joining the federation. Who needs CANZUK when you have ANZ
  9. J

    Ming Campbell in 2010

    Guess there are two parts to that. One is how important Nick's debate performance was to the final result and two - would have Ming run a tighter ship during the campaign and not wasted effort (party resources, activists) on long shots? Assumedly @iainbhx has thoughts
  10. J

    What If Poland Stopped the Blitz? Part 1

    Even just mobilising further would be an interesting POD. If say they were a week further ahead on their mobilisation that would slow Germany down a fair bit, better weapons or nor.
  11. J

    Soul City, North Carolina

    Interesting! I have to wonder how sustainable it was as a long term economic prospect, given the county itself tho. One large employer small rural towns are nervous places to live, after all
  12. J

    Federal New Zealand

    There wasn't really a strong island identity either, at least contrasted to the provincial identities of the time. Probably still isn't today, although perhaps more so than then. I do identify as a South Islander, though, but it is pretty low level compared to other self identifications I hold.
  13. J

    A More Successful Scottish Socialist Party and other related ideas?

    I love the idea of SSP somehow getting a lot of money, ala someone winning Lotto and they end up going a bit nuts in the 03 election. Not convinced it would help a huge degree, but it would be a laugh
  14. J

    No Maori in New Zealand

    Pretty much. I would be interested to see some sort of study on the economic impact/integration of the early colonies/NZ. An old flatmate sort of works in this field and if anyone would know it would be him or his colleague in the department. Anyway, I get the feeling that there was a fair...
  15. J

    No Maori in New Zealand

    I think there are too many variables. It could even be there isn't an Australia, so big the POD is.
  16. J

    No Maori in New Zealand

    The key problem is that whilst it is reasonable to assume that a 19th century settlement might be more willing and able to try and control impact of humans on a virgin territory, the settlement would likely be quite slow and sporadic anyway. So in the first wave of settlers there could be many...
  17. J

    WI: Present-day Finland ISOTed back to 1939

    The more I think about it - this specific ISOT is interesting because of the DMZ
  18. J

    WI: Present-day Finland ISOTed back to 1939

    I find these ones quite interesting - because you have a really strong mismatch. 1. Finland 2021 is strong, with powerful 21st century military. 2. USSR 1939 is actually pretty strong, with vast strategic depth. Finland's military advantage is brittle and hard to keep at that edge. Far more...
  19. J

    AHC: Keep the London Underground as the largest RTS in the world

    This is very easy, just butterfly the Great Depression and WW2. That way you can slow/stop London's depopulation and also not disrupt the various expansion plans
  20. J

    London Mayoral PODs

    Slightly tweaking the mayoral voting system might make things more interesting, although probably not. Swapping SV for a more normal ranked system might end up with more interesting election campaigns anyway
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